Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-08
TEXAS In TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest.

ClpplnkB ITOm SIdbD GlACDhnBcb On IhSLIeEs
of Interest.
Plenty of rain at Big Springs.
Business prospects are good in Dublin.
Royse City shipped fifteen carloads of
cattle on last Friday.
The drilling for an artesian well at Big
Springs commenced to-day,
One firm IN Blanco shipped last week
to San Antonio IA, 900 pounds of wool.
New wheat is being received at the
Gainesville mills. 1t brings rs cents q
bushel
A steel roller Touring mill will be add
ed to the Industries of Vernon before
next harvest.
The Methodists at Seymour have just
finished and dedicated q new church and
are building parsonage.
Vernon is constantly gaining new trade
territory, the latest acquisition in that
line being Knox and King counties.
The building boom goes on at Gaines
vile. There are thirty-6ve new brick
business houses in course OF erection.
The acreage of small grain is not so
large in Rockwell county as last year but
the yield will exceed the expectation OF
all.
Wheat harvesting has commenced id
Erath county. The prospect of corn ant
cotton crops was never better in than
section.
There has been proposition made to
the citizens of Granbury to put in opera
ton an ice factory there within the next
thirty days.
In La Sale county the rains have been
sufficient to guarantee ample grass all
summer and the water supply will last
equally as long.
Corn about Cotulla is five feet high,
even, and of good color. With season.
able rain the crop is estimated from
thirty to fifty bushels to the acre.
The hail several days ago did much in
jury at Mason, destroying fruit and veg
etables, inIurlng nearly ell the roofs and
breaking great deal of window glass.
Stephenville intends to have water and
gasworks, and an ice factory so soon as
the building of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grsnde Railway TO that point is assured.
In Blanco county the rains are Undue
ing the rapid growth of all vegetation.
The crops are young, but with fair sea-
sons the yield, it is believed, will be
good.
The new bridge across the Rio Grande
at Eagle Pass is progressing. Rock has
been quarried, hauled under the hill and
the foundations for the piers have been
commenced.
There has been considerable rain in
San Saba. The farmers are cheerful but
say another rain is needed to assure the
crop. The wool clip is good and is being
brought in rapidly.
Pearsall and vicinity have been visited
by good rains, and the crop prospect I'M
proved thereby. The pecan crop, it is
thought, will be immense, and the out
look for game of all kinds, excellent.
Opinions as to the average yield Of
wheat aud oats in Bell county range from
seven to fifteen bushels per acre. Oats
were much injured by the drouth but
corn and cotton promise immense crops.
Mrs. S. H. Neal of FriotoWn has been
placed in jail on a charge of insanity.
The supposed cause of her arrangement is
attributed to her infant child's death
about two or three weeks ago.
There is quarry at Preside, the rock
being sandstone specially adapted for
IQe Manufacture Ol Iue porous water JaE
of the Mexican. The owner of the quar-
ry is busy filling orders for these jars and
shipping. The material is said to be ia
exhaustible.
Mason claims to be the banner stock
county Of Texas, having shipped this year
over 10000 head of high priced cattle.
The production of wheat is said to be
from twelve to twenty bushels per acre,
corn from twenty to forty, with good
crops of oats and cotton.
Wichita Herald: There is every pros
pect before US for 8 good healthy sub
stantial boom this fall. The wheat crop
is good, the oats in many places fair, the
corn crop is as fine as could be asked, the
cotton promises well, the wool clipping
has been an extraordinarily good one and
cattle are fat and fine.
Gainesville is in a needy condition.
Her citizens modestly demand park, g
foundry, an elevator, an ice factory, an
artesian well, public fountain,
that railroad to Dallas, an
other large -four mill, that railroad to the
southwest, several more artesian wells, a
cotton seed oil mill and cotton factory.